The Arab Spring And Iraq

Joel Wing finds few stories on Iraq's protest movement:

The protests and fighting in the Middle East and North Africa continue to this day. There are still stories about Libya, Syria, Bahrain, and other countries. That’s no longer true of Iraq. It got a little coverage in the beginning of the year, but no more. The media, even for those few organizations that maintain bureaus in Baghdad, has forgotten Iraq’s demonstrations. It used to be the number one news story in both the United States and England. Now it usually only gets mentioned when terrorists blow something up. That gives a very distorted view of the country, and ignores how it is going through the same youth-led transformations as other nations in the region. Unfortunately, what becomes of it will largely be unknown for those outside of the Middle East, except for those that actively search for news on Iraq because the western media has lost interest.